PHOTO: Dana Doran, executive director of PLC, Kelly Pearson, director of the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital program at Northern Light Health, and Kate Richardson, Children’s Miracle Network senior philanthropy manager for Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital. (Submitted photo)
AUGUSTA — The Professional Logging Contractors of Maine raised a record $205,000 for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals in Maine in 2021 through its annual Log A Load for Maine Kids fundraising efforts.
The total shattered the $136,716 record set in 2020, 2ith the PLC’s two Log A Load golf tournaments and the annual Log A Load live auction at the PLC’s annual membership meeting hitting records in 2021.
“It is frankly amazing that despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and rising expenses in the logging industry, PLC’s Members, supporting members, friends, and families have rallied so strongly to raise a new record amount for Children’s Miracle Network hospitals,” Dana Doran, executive director of the PLC, said. “Time and time again this group has exceeded all expectations and pulled together for this cause.”
Doran presented a check for the money to representatives from Northern Light/Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor and The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center in Portland. The check was presented at the PLC’s office in Augusta.
Those accepting the check on behalf of the hospitals were Kelly Pearson, director of the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital program at Northern Light Health, and Kate Richardson, Children’s Miracle Network senior philanthropy manager for Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital.
The PLC’s Log A Load efforts have raised more than $1.5 million since 1995. For more information, visit www.logaload.org.
Maine’s loggers are a vital part of the state’s forest products sector, which is worth an estimated $8.1 billion annually. Logging contributed an estimated $619 million to the state economy in 2017.
